We had a great time at an informal all-day crop here in Watertown this Saturday and I thought I'd share what I got accomplished in between brainstorming, snacking and chatting! This colorful page about the April 2007 Stampin' Up regional convention in Milwaukee was done with my Scrapper's Sketch of the Week from last week–I was pleased as punch to note that a couple of people were working from printouts of my sketches. You can find this particular sketch here.
My favorite part of this page is the Bermuda Bay corduroy buttons I made by coloring Kraft ones with my marker. I also put Crystal Effects on the lettering to make it pop (the retired Doodle Alphabet) and in big dotted circles around the other groupings of circles.
Finished up a couple of 8.5×11 pages to go in past albums that I did in that size. These are pictures of Natalie from the fall she was five. I like how this one turned out. It's so fun to do really girly pages. You might not be able to see it so well, but there is Shimmer Spray and Crystal Effects on the flowers. I'm really enjoying my new pack of Sherbet buttons, too. The flowers were made with multiple punches.
My husband had to clear up a mystery for me about this page, when I got home I couldn't figure out why the Casper "Ghosts" (get it?) had a "duck" as their mascot. Well, turns out, it isn't a duck at all–it's a platypus–making much more sense when you realize the Platte River is right next to home field for this minor league team!
It was Dan's first game and he was precious, although much more interested in the popcorn, peanuts and free shirts than the actual game, of course. I enjoyed adding a splash of Certainly Celery green to these pages to accent his goofy plastic sunglasses. The DSP is from the Autumn Meadows pack, which you might note has no Celery in it–well, I fixed THAT–I just colored one of the white strips green with a marker and viola!–it matched perfectly.Neat little tip!
Gracious but my kids are adorable!! That is the best part of scrapping… getting to unashamedly stare at pictures of your beautiful, quirky, silly, smart kids for hours. The focal point photo here of Daniel just makes me bust with mama-love… who could resist a gangly, muddy seven year old with a fistful of wildflowers? Loved these photos from our trip to Wyoming this summer. I used more Kraft corduroy buttons and set some fun hardware and Jumbo Eyelets in with my Crop A Dile, to accent this Autumn Meadows DSP. I forgot my sponges, so all the weathering was done with direct-to-paper techniques.
So that's what I did on Saturday. Well, there was one more spread, but it didn't make the cut. See, not everything I do is blog-worthy! Ha!! Now you get off the computer and go scrap some of YOUR memories! And call me if you need anything.
